Don’t Kid Me – A Comedy Night for Reproductive Rights
Back for a second round of laughs and liberation, Don’t Kid Me is NEAR’s annual comedy night where the jokes are fresh, the vibes are pro-abortion, and the cause couldn’t be more vital. Hosted by the unstoppable Melissa Nicole and featuring a stacked lineup of local female and nonbinary comics—Carmela Andersen, Erin Clough, Ocho de la Rosa, Cole Sichta, Mel Mackey, Breanna Kalthorn, Ben Miles, and Lauren Vana.
Built To Spill
Built to Spill was formed in 1993 by Doug Martsch and over the years they have toured extensively and made several albums with a rotating cast of musicians, currently featuring Teresa Esguerra (Prism Bitch) on drums, and Melanie Radford (Blood Lemon) on bass.
Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown
Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown would label themselves a rock and roll band, however, there’s a little more to it than that. Some might hear a bluesy influence while some might call it classic or southern rock. The pure energy and volume that could follow a heartfelt ballad proves that this band is hard to fit into a single box. Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee, the group are true music appreciators who pride themselves on their live shows. Night after night they leave it all on the stage and like to refer to those nights as celebrations of “life, sound, and community.” The band consists of Tyler Bryant on lead vocals and guitar, Caleb Crosby on drums, and Graham Whitford on guitar. They have played hundreds of shows with countless venerable icons, such as AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, ZZ Top, Clutch, and Jeff Beck, just to name a few. In 2022, the group decided to take their career into their own hands by starting Rattle Shake Records – an independent label that allows them a direct line of communication with their fans. The group released Electrified in 2024 — an album that represents the band’s mantra of letting loose and making music that sounds just as good on the stage as it does on a record. “I think this is potentially our most “authentically us” sounding album,” says Tyler. For Crosby, the album “feels like the culmination of where we’ve been and where we want to be.” “There are a lot of things to overthink in life,” Bryant says. “Rock and roll is not one of those things.”
Gallivant
Secret Weapon
THROUGH FIRE
VIP MEET & EAT Includes: General Admission Ticket Early Entry at 5 Pizza with the Band (bar available for drink purchase) Signed Show Poster Photo Opportunity with Through Fire After a decade long journey full of adventures and priceless memories, it’s time to close the chapter. We’ve collectively decided to take a break from THROUGH FIRE to focus on new projects and life goals. We still plan on releasing new music at some point but for now, no more tours. We’re beyond grateful for everyone’s support over the years and very proud of what we’ve all accomplished together!! We want to thank every radio station, promoter, venue, our team/label/management/ crew, friends & family and of course, YOU – OUR FIGHTERS!! With that said, we have many things to celebrate, so we’re having a party!! Join us for 1 more show – THE LAST DANCE- Sat May 17 @ Waiting Room Lounge in our hometown Omaha, Ne!! MUCH LOVE – TF
King Iso / A-Wax / Taebo Tha Truth / Snake Lucci /Dj Doc
Opening support from: C10, Jamie Triller x Mac Knight, Jay Lively, Dread and Strange, Dredaymackoveli’
El Desmadre Party
“Omaha! We are el desmadre. A rave party by latinos, for latinos. Donde el rave se encuentra con el perreo. We cannot wait to party with you!”
Swans
Michael Gira founded Swans in 1982. Initially known for their brutal, high-volume onslaughts of sound and the extreme, abject imagery of Gira’s lyrics and his thundering vocals, Swans underwent a series of startling transformations over the next 15 years. After early punishing albums like Filth and Cop, they explored proto-industrial rock with Greed, atmospheric and martial elements on Children of God (1987), acoustic meditations on The Burning World (1989), and grand, melody-dense sonic whirlwinds with White Light from the Mouth of Infinity (1991) and Love of Life (1993), before becoming more dissonant and sharp-edged with The Great Annihilator (1994). Finally, the ultimate statement of that epoch of Swans, Soundtracks for the Blind, combined all of these elements across well over two hours of music. Gira disbanded the group, shifting focus to Angels of Light and his Young God Records label, fostering artists like Devendra Banhart and Akron/Family. In 2010, he revived Swans with My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky to ecstatic critical response followed by The Seer (2012) and To Be Kind (2014), with both earning critical and commercial success, leading to sold-out tours and multiple Billboard chart placements. The Glowing Man (2017) marked the end of that Swans incarnation, with Leaving Meaning (2019) and The Beggar (2023) continuing Gira’s work with an evolving lineup.
Origami Angel
Feeling Not Found, the third full-length record from Washington, D.C. duo Origami Angel, is the one—the rare, undeniable piece of work that defines a sound, a moment, a subculture, a band’s position in the continuum of music. Vocalist/guitarist Ryland Heagy and drummer Pat Doherty have been building to this record since they started the band in 2016, growing it quickly into one of the most exciting and volcanic bands in the American punk and emo communities. A 14-track epic recorded with producer Will Yip at his Studio 4 Recording, Feeling Not Found revolves around the deeply modern experience teased in the title: an emotional and spiritual 404 error, a sensation of cellular-level malfunction and data corruption, of being lost in an oblivion of digital information, and the desperate struggle to reconnect to how it feels to be human and whole. “I was looking at America as this digital silicon hellscape,” says Heagy. “What came to me was, in this amalgamation, this sea of randomness, I felt not found, you know? It speaks to where we were as a band, and where I was as a person. For about three years until we finished this album, I was in a very, very lost place in my life, and everything felt very random and unstable.” Heagy and Doherty explore and explode that limbo on a record that demonstrates Origami Angel at the top of their class, cementing their status as a boundary-pushing, breakneck, cross-culture and cross-genre phenomenon. The record is choreographed like a roller coaster, driving seamlessly between sunny easycore jams, crushing metalcore riffing, jazzy indie rock, misty emo, electronic, and so much more. It sounds like precisely what it is, the thing that makes Origami Angel so special: Heagy and Doherty’s twin brains poured out into an audio file, refined but unrestrained, unhinged and profound and in dogged pursuit of a creative expression of their lived experiences. Heagy and Doherty have been working on the material that comprises Feeling Not Found for years, through the time periods of both their previous LPs, 2019’s Somewhere City and 2021’s breakout smash Gami Gang. Those releases (and the intense, infamous live shows that supported them) established Origami Angel as a unique force that interspersed elements of ’90s math and emo with early 2000s pop-punk and easycore to grow something new and contemporary, something that felt as breakneck and relentless and teetering-on-the-edge as this era of human history. But the juxtaposition of the band’s rise in notoriety with the pandemic’s sudden requirement of online-only existence for musical performers fucked with Heagy’s head—a duality that runs through the new LP. “Growing up a DIY kid, a punk kid, it was all about the community, and that’s something that I strived to find,” he says. “Then it was like overnight, we had it, then we didn’t, but it’s growing into this thing that I can’t physically interact with. I just triggered my own personal anxieties and my own mental health was really fucked up by that. I was so puzzled by the way that my brain reacted to it.” All the difficult shit that Origami Angel have tried to work through on Feeling Not Found might not be solved or fixed forever, but there’s a mutual understanding that’s been established along the way, one that provides enough of a reason to keep trying. Heagy’s resolve is clear and powerful: “And I may not feel found, but I’m not as lost as I used to be/And it may not be right, but it’s not as wrong as it usually seems/I can be as here and as real as I want if I want and you’ll never take that away/This out of date software’s here to stay.” Feeling Not Found is out September 27 on Counter Intuitive Records.